Humanity, At Its Core, Is Nothing Special. We Can Parade Our Wealth Around And Try Desperately To Establish
Humanity, at its core, is nothing special. We can parade our wealth around and try desperately to establish ourselves as superior to another, we can build big empires and companies and technology our ancestors couldn't have even thought of, we can fight over religion and race and class and sexuality, we can strive to study and excel at a hundred things just to prove we were here, just to prove we did something.
Even so, at the end of the day what stays is the mundane. Handprints left behind on cave walls, finding two people who loved each other so much they were buried next to each other, films and paintings and music and poetry and myths and stories that someone poured their heart and life experiences into, everything that has been shaped into existence in the quiet spaces that hide below our bustling lives. Everything that doesn't just say I was here, but that I was here and I was just like you. That is what remains, that is what touches the hearts of those who are here and those who will be here years from now.
Humanity, at its core, is nothing special. And that is exactly what makes it so special.
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every part of this post is so wonderfully fitting
⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚ patrochilles ˚୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆
✧ all the stars - kendrick&sza ✧
"I thought of how many nights I had lain awake in this room, loving him in silence."
all the stars are closer i.e. achilles sleeping beside patroclus as the latter lay awake, yearning.
"We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other."
the youthful notion that nothing would happen to them, when in fact they were running out of time. the way they were hauntingly obsessed with each other.
"....they never let you be happy and famous."
corrupt a man's heart with a gift i.e. achilles having enough strength to succumb to pride.
"If you have to go, you know I will go with you."
the fact that both achilles and patroclus didn't care about winning or losing at the end — they simply wanted each other.
"I wish he had let you all die."
"There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw."
the way achilles was always uncaring of others, uncaring of their views, their attitudes, aware of their lies, aware of their schemes, yet the only thing that mattered was patroclus.
"I would recognize you in total darkness, were you mute and I deaf. I would recognize you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, in different times. And I would love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion."
"I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
"I am made of memories."
"Go," she says. "He waits for you."
In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.
enough said.
walking away from the cambrian explosion and making sure not to look back at it so its all badass
you don't have to the peacocks already got to them :(
Ive hired 2,000 finches to eat your freshly sown lawn seed
I didn't realise it was a shadow for a whole MINUTE and was just so impressed like waaaoooww i didn't even know cows could HAVE three distinct shades like that what are the chances it patterned like thissss before i realised
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